Your roundup of all the hottest hot-stove items of the day (and whatever shit Ken Rosenthal is throwing against the wall). This is ... HOT FUCKING STOVE!!!

• Today is no ordinary day on the stove, my friends. Exactly 125 years ago today, the St. Louis Browns shrewdly dealt Hugh Nicol to the Cincinnati Red Stockings in exchange for backstop "Honest" Jack Boyle and $350. The move was the first recorded trade in Major League history, and thus was born the hot fucking stove.

• Pending a physical, the Dodgers agreed to pay Matt Kemp a lot of money for a long time. And to think, it was just last year that Kemp's name was being floated in trade rumors for Melky Cabrera.